China Needs Girls. More Are on the Way

摘要

Priscilla Yang is standing outside Tuanjiehu Beijing Maternity Hospital, her husband dutifully holding aloft a purple umbrella to shield her from the blazing July sun. The 27-year-old is eight months pregnant and feeling relieved: Her latest rounds of prenatal tests came back normal. Yang doesn't know, but wonders about, the gender of her child. A college-educated public-relations executive, Yang says she hasn't tried to wheedle illicit information from the maternity hospital staff. Boy or girl, "both are OK," she says. "What I care most about is that the baby is healthy."